Re: Great Game

[damekmo@teleport.com]

>Great game, Celts played the 3rd or 4th best team in the league and had a
>chance to win it. I look back to a missed bunny by AW and a passed up shot
>from Mercer as to contributing factors late in 4th. But everyone
>contrubuted. Vitale has made this a much, much better team. He showed he
>can put the ball to the floor at times and dish off or finish off. It seems
>Battie is playing w/confidence since VP's arrival. The whole team is.
>Rebounds even, we had more assists, and shot the fouls well. We shot 47%,
>55% of 3's,and 78% fouls shooting, can't ask for much better than. I expect
>the Celts to get to 500 with the schedule now in our favor.

Dan...a great game....and yes, Vitaly does make a world of difference.
Smits ripped him in the fourth, but hey....Smits can do that to everyone.
Again...I don't mean to sound like a broken record and I know a lot of you
don't buy it, but the last quarter had youth written all over it. This team
needs experience. It'll happen. They'll win games like this at home...and
they'll learn to win them on the road. The effort was there again, it'll
happen. Missed shots...rushed shots...everything happening too quickly...no
concept of working the shot clock...a good game though. Coming home will
help the team's confidence.

Paul M.